Debussy : Piano Works, Vol.3 (bavouzet)

Claude Debussy: Children's Corner; Suite bergamasque; Danse Bohémienne; Nocturne; La plus que lent; Mazurka; Rêverie; Deux Arabesques; Morceau de concours; The Little Nigar; Hommage à Haydn; Berceuse Héroïque; Page d'Album; Elegie

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet here offers the third volume in his series devoted to the complete works for piano by Debussy. The music now moves to a more playful strand in Debussy's compositional career, with generally shorter pieces of the salon genre, including the two famous collections 'Children's Corner' and 'Suite bergamasque'. In addition to these well-known works there are several that are more rarely heard. Two such are 'La plus que lente', which seems to look ahead to the 'Études' of 1915, and 'Élégie'. Bavouzet's previous two volumes have been very well received both critically and commercially. In a recent review of volume two the LA Times wrote, 'In what may turn out to be the greatest complete recorded survey of the composer's piano music yet, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet...plays with such bracing clarity that hearing the early Romantic pieces, one feels like jumping into an icy pond after an hour in the sauna'. Of the same volume International Record Review has noted, 'I had the highest praise for jean-Efflam Bavouzet's first volume of Debussy, and the present disc is fully the equal of that one in terms of colour, refinement of touch, spontaneity and technical finish...Bavouzet has written that his Debussy playing has been influenced by that of Gieseking, Michelangeli and Richter. You may hear something of each of these pianists in his playing but more than that you will hear his own distinctive and special voice'. This series is a deeply personal project for Bavouzet who has been involved in all aspects of the recording process.

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